Thursday, January 26, 2012

“If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.”

“Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.”

"People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to."

Au contraire. The same Torah that created god precipitated among rationalists explicatory science. That of course ultimately will leave chareidi judaism, taliban islam and assorted freakish cults in the dustbin of history.

"I wouldn't need to go yeshiva and study if it were all clear." -- Abe, I sympathise with you, but your logic failed you there. It's all clear outside, but you have to leave the house and go outside to see that it's clear. Similarly, the argument is that you'd have to go to yeshiva to see the clarity.

No, I don't. If my local weather forecast informs me that that its presently sunny outside, there's no reason to suspect that its raining. OTOH, the torah is so contradictory, murky and somewhat immoral, that years in authoritarian yeshivas are required to sanitize and reconcile the inconsistencies. The result is a clutter of casuistic vacuity masquerading as logic. Any rational perusal of Stein's fallacious premises, evidence and proofs quickly validates my sentiments.

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I am an Orthodox Jew and I live in Rockland County, NY.
I was raised as a non-practicing Lutheran by my adopted parents and I converted to Judaism at age 16.
This blog as a rule follows the teachings of the Lithuanian rabbinical seminaries of the 1920s and 1930s. Specifically, I have been very influenced by the recordings and writings of Rabbi Avigdor Miller obm.
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